Black_Disciple

So I got an interesting idea to make the scanner upgrade more useful by adding a stealth mechanic. no not cloaking lol but the icons to tell friend from foe removed up until a certain range say the base range is 10km to detect NPC/PLAYER objects you would only see that ship/station in the distance and wouldn't know what it was till within that 10km threshold. now the scanner upgrade could increase this by an amount of km with its other scanning buffs. perhaps even once perma installed for higher tires you can send out a ping wave that is either double or triple the range and maybe even range of the sector which will highlight all objects in the sector within that range basically gathering intel. Now here's the other kicker a counter scanning upgrade a stealth system that would reduce your signature range to other vessels say you have one that reduces your signature by 5km so then a ship with the base 10km wouldn't be able to detect your ship until your 5km away from it in the detection threshold. now to keep this from being abused you could limit the scanner and stealth systems to one per ship. NPC ships would not engage with you until you are in their detection zone or you fire at them giving you a surprise attack. this can also be useful for avoiding unwanted attention especially if you are smuggling or trying to evade enemies. you can also have specific NPCs that have a stealth ship or intelligence vessel that takes into account these new changes. i think a cool way to tell these ships apart from one another would be to have their hulls in a night grey color with their factions colors. i feel since the xsotan detect energy signatures they would be immune to the scanner and stealth mechanics. i do think this would be an amazing addition to avorion and that people would really love it. i dont think it would be to hard to implement either? it would also give the expansion a little more bang for the buck. (Can also be done with percentage instead of a base number)

I second this the model should only show up when we click on the design.

Hi I like this mod its very interesting and I would love if you would ask permission to use my ships first next time especially since I will be having some ships posted on a patreon account soon. thank you for crediting with the name but id love to know what's going on with my stuff next time lol.